Current Residents

Macaulay House Studio Residency

Josh and Lucy at Klondike Valley Nursery, photo by Sol Suárez

We are excited to welcome Lucy Gill and Josh Jensen to the KIAC Artist in Residence Program for the month of September.

Lucy Gill and Josh Jensen share a collaborative practice rooted in slow making, care, and attention to everyday material life. Working across sculpture, analogue photography, organic processes, and sustainable material reuse, they explore preservation,
transformation, and accumulation as sites of memory, labour, and exchange. Through intuitive, process-based methods, their work forms living archives shaped by time, touch, and use, modelling collaborative and sustainable approaches to artistic practice.


Their proposed residency builds on their shared investigations into preservation, labour, care, and material lifecycles, adapting their practice to northern ecologies through collaboration with the Klondike Valley Nursery, home to Canada’s northernmost orchard.

Using food preservation as both artistic method and social practice, they will work with apples grown in the Yukon to explore how cultural knowledge, ecological adaptation, and community care are shaped by extreme seasonal conditions. Their practice emphasizes slow, cyclical processes that foreground care and maintenance. In the North, where growing seasons are short and preservation is essential, apples offer an accessible entry point into conversations about survival, interdependence, and sharing knowledge.

Here, they plan to continue making preservatives through historic processes such as dehydration, fermentation, canning, pickling, and fruit leather production. For the first week of their residency, they are volunteering at the Klondike Valley Nursery and learning about apples in Northern climates and making connections with locals.

https://lucygill.com

https://www.joshjensen.art

https://www.klondikevalley.com

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE EVENTS

Open Studio & Artist Talk with Lucy Gill and Josh Jensen

Thursday September 24th, 2026 from 17h00 to 19h00 at Macaulay House – all welcome!

We are pleased to invite everyone to an open studio and artist talk hosted by Josh Jensen and Lucy Gill at the Macaulay House! Come visit and see what Josh and Lucy have been up to since their arrival to Dawson in late August. Josh and Lucy have been working collaboratively using apples as a material to create sculptural installations and to look at themes of preservation, labour, and maintenance. The pair will be presenting some of their apple-related samples and research they have been working on with support of John Lenart at the Klondike Valley Nursery. 

The two artists will also be expanding on their individual and collaborative practices, going into more detail about their use of food products, sculpture and analog photography.